Open Access: History of the OA Movement

• Association of American Publishers
• STM-International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers
• Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA)

The open access movement began in the 1990s, as access to the World Wide Web became widely available and online publishing became the norm. The forerunners of open access were open source and open courseware.

• Development of open access journals: The Development of Open Access Journal Publishing from 1993 to 2009
• Statements about open access: the Budapest Open Access Initiative (Feb. 14, 2002), the Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing (Apr. 11, 2003), the Berlin Declaration on Open Access (Oct. 22, 2003), the Lyon Declaration on Access to Informationa and Development (Aug. 2014), Public Library of Science (PLoS) (founded in 2000), and Creative Commons (founded in 2001)
• Development of open archives: Open Archives Initiative (started in October 1999)
• Adoption of open access policies (starting in 2003): ROARMAP: Registry of Open Access Repository Material Archiving Policies

There has been much discussion and analysis of whether open access affects the number of times a publication is cited. The following bibliography summarizes such studies, and provides links to the relevant publications:

The effect of open access and downloads ('hits') on citation impact: a bibliography of studies (part of the Open Citation Project - Reference Linking and Citation Analysis for Open Archives)

• NIH Public Access
• HHMI & Public Access Publishing
• Wellcome Trust Open Access Policy
• Fair Access to Science and Technology Act (FASTR)
• The Research Works Act (H.R. 3699)

Besides the effect of open access on citation impact, the economic and social impacts of open access have been analyzed:

Income Models for Supporting Open Access (from SPARC)

The Business Case for Open Access (from JISC)

Economic and Social Impacts of Open Access (Easi-OA)

AHA Statement on Scholarly Journal Publishing